“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

For the framework is the same framework in which you have your physical existence. We will make you investigators even in your sleep; and you can see now how your very investigations are bound to change the nature of your dreams themselves. Only in this case nothing will be lost, and much gained. It is unfortunate that medical men who deal with the mind as a specialty have not thought of some of these connections more thoroughly.

Studies of space and distance as they are experienced in dreams will be helpful, and our material will indeed deal with such discussions. For investigation into the nature of space and time as they are experienced within the dream framework, will tell you more about the real nature of space and time then you can ever learn through studying their distorted appearances within physical reality. This will be most important to us.

As I mentioned, your psychological time experiences will also help you to investigate the nature of time and space to some degree.

In this sort of an investigation instructions then can be given before sleeping, and a portion of the self will indeed continue to work for you in this manner. You can indeed learn much concerning events; but what we are mainly concerned with here is the stuff of dreams, and the framework within which they have their existence.

[...] Otherwise the letters may lay there for some time before I investigate them. [...] We haven’t given anyone permission to do that, so I’ll have to investigate the whole thing.)

Investigation of Dream Reality

Dream Investigation

Third, we were involved in vigorous subjective activity as we began to experiment with Seth’s psy-time regularly and to follow his suggestions concerning dream investigation, recall and utilization. [...]

Dream investigation or manipulation as an aesthetic pursuit — as an art, embarked upon for its own sake — this is something else again and is sometimes suspect because of its solitary nature. [...]

[...] For we are outlining the stages of an investigation of the nature and conditions of consciousness.

Whether or not you realize it, you have already begun such an investigation, and Ruburt’s careful notes and recordings of his dreams, over nearly a three-year period, and your own dream recordings, are only the beginning.

[...] These investigations will also deal with a systematic examination into all levels of consciousness.

[...] The investigation will always be concerned with the search for primaries and secondaries. [...]

I do not speak here of acquaintances who do not understand the importance of psychic investigation. [...] And psychic investigation will, and should, increase that ability if it is properly begun, and if the ego is properly related to the physical environment.

For safety’s sake a firm relationship between the ego and its environment should be considered a prerequisite for serious or extensive psychic investigation. [...]

Legitimate, balanced psychic journeyings will result in a beneficial effect as far as the ego and its ability to handle its concerns are involved; and whenever such journeyings or investigations result in a lessening of egotistic control over circumstance then anyone so involved should instantly ask himself questions, and abruptly halt.

[...] But its ability to relate to others on the physical plane needs strengthening, particularly since the personality is vitally concerned with psychic investigation.

[...] … What is not understood is that self-investigation initiates states of consciousness with which you are usually not familiar. Now these can be used as investigative tools.

The reality of dreams themselves can only be investigated through direct contact. [...]

[...] There are many opportunities for an investigation of dreams along these lines, and the results would yield more legitimate information.

[...] The dreams of children could be investigated in this manner without too much difficulty, and these could be compared, generally speaking, with the dreams of adults. [...]

[...] The acts of the investigators are changing the conditions in such a way it is easy to find that which you are looking for.

[...] Therefore since dreams are manifestations of inner reality, they cannot be interpreted or investigated with any success through the use of the outer senses.

A study or investigation of inner reality was not the purpose of the intellect. [...]

[...] The results of another kind of investigation may be given to the intellect, which may then be able to register the facts involved, but only with some difficulty since the intellect is bound and determined to study facts in the light of so-called cause and effect, which appears so logical to the intellect, since it deals so often with appearances registered by the outer senses, then trying to interpret them into some kind of order.

The investigation of dreams, then, must be accomplished in or on a subconscious level. [...]

[...] But the guests are so engrossed by the wonders of their own quarters within this strange hotel that many of them do little investigating.

[...] It is easier however if you have the help of one of the guests in another room who is more used to the passageways, someone who has been investigating a while longer.

[...] The drugs enable him to isolate certain portions of himself, of his psyche, and to send the isolated portions on journeys of investigation. [...]

[...] I believe that you will note some rather significant correlations, if you find the time to carry any of these investigations through with any regularity. [...]

[...] There are obviouslyconnections between the psychic and physical self, and there is no reason why you should not begin to investigate these for yourselves.

You are investigating these matters, and should be interested in discovering what you can about when we succeed, and when we do not.

I have said often that any action changes that which acts and that which is acted upon; and so in the sort of experiments that are currently being carried on to study dreams, the acts of the investigators are changing the conditions in such a way that it is easy for them to find what they are looking for. The investigator himself, through his actions, inadvertantly brings about those results for which he looks. [...]

(Rob and I had read an article on scientific dream investigation.)

The reality of dreams can be investigated only through direct contact. [...]

[...] The dreams of children could be investigated in this way and compared with those of adults. [...]

Little scientific investigative work has been done in these areas. [...] Until the legitimacy of out-of-body experiences is recognized, no investigative experiments will be carried on, of course.

[...] The idea of hits and misses in ESP investigations was unknown to me. [...]

[...] Dr. Instream had been one of the nation’s foremost psychologists in his earlier years, and had investigated many mediums in the past. [...]

After greeting Dr. Instream, Seth said: “My field is education, and my particular interest is that these [seemingly paranormal] abilities of human personality be understood and investigated, for they are not unnatural, but inherent. [...]

“Some [evidence] that we have is difficult to deny, but we must conduct a methodical investigation of these things,” Dr. Instream said.

My field is indeed education, and my particular interest is that these abilities of human personality be understood and investigated. [...]

[...] A discussion followed involving the sessions in general, the field of psychic investigation, proofs, etc. [...]

[...] we must conduct a methodical investigation of these things.”)

[...] Dr. Instream used these examples to point out how important the correct methodology was in trying to obtain proofs in psychic investigations.

[...] I could have helped him further, but I was [part of what he was investigating] …

[...] We will see to it that you are not too badly inconvenienced in any investigation. [...]

[...] Seth explained how Jane’s poetry had always been “a creative offshoot of her desire to understand the nature of existence and reality, her way of probing psychically… into other realms… a method of investigation and a method of exploring the results.”

[...] All of her [writing] is a part of her creative life, but now she is investigating the nature of reality far more directly…. [...]

I wanted to show the direction in which we were moving since our first experiences with interior events of this nature, and also generally provide guidelines for others who may wish to do their own investigations. [...]

Any investigation of the basic inner universe, which is the only real universe, must be done as much as possible from a point outside your own distortions, but the only way open for you to escape the distortions of your own physical universe is to journey inward. [...]

[...] Here you will find your answers as to how the inner self transforms energy for his own purposes, changes his form, adopts other apparent realities, and all this free for the investigation.

Hypnotism will become more and more a tool of scientific investigation. [...]

[...] If the ego can be made to understand that inner awareness, exploration and investigation will actually enlarge its scope of awareness there will be little difficulty.

[...] There are always obvious reasons that you can point to, but the emotional charge that exists within you on these issues is highly important and should be examined and investigated by you in the same way, you see, that you would investigate it if you saw it in someone else. [...]